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...Then there's the China factor or rather, the anywhere-but-China factor. Korean giant LG Electronics exports to the Middle East from appliance and consumer-electronics factories near Pune and New Delhi because it's faster to ship to those markets from India than from China. The company recently opened another Pune plant to make optical-disk drives for Europe. "We didn't want to depend on the Chinese for everything," says Kim Kwang Ro, managing director of LG Electronics in India. "Our company decided to diversify...
...David Cameron simply because he was an Old Etonian. He had to fight the image: "It's not where you come from but where you are going that counts," he said, as if he had had to escape a deprived childhood. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, a former ship's steward, targeted Cameron as part of an "Eton mafia." Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Cameron's likely opponent at the next election, also dismissed him as just "an Old Etonian." Any school for teenagers that politicians can use to curse their foes decades later has powerful magic indeed...
...Nawalowalo, who is more interested in "how one adds to a picture," pushes traditional imagery into new realms. In a Samoan siva dance, she spotlights the hands so they appear out of the darkness like swimming squid. Later, she dramatizes the arrival of missionaries with a ship's sail, which passes before a dancer, revealing three church ladies in its wake...
...high-class drug scene is an inevitable consequence of India's recent economic growth and newfound wealth. It's no secret that there are drug-fueled raves on the outskirts of Delhi, and just last week, Indian authorities seized 200 kilograms of cocaine from a South African ship in a Bombay port. Authorities and journalists alike point fingers at India's Nigerian community, who they claim arrive on easily obtainable student visas before beginning to deal cocaine and heroin to the wealthy. In the capital, four cocaine busts have been made this year - after nine busts in the whole...
...industry grows--10.1 million North Americans will cruise this year, up 47% in five years--other lines are adding niche cruises and longer, luxurious trips, but Royal Caribbean is set on big. In 2009 it plans to launch a ship of biblical proportions, 40% larger than Freedom, with a price tag of $1.1 billion. Its name? Genesis...